Jay F. Nunamaker Jr. (born August 27, 1937) is the Bupati Professor and Professor Soldwedel at the University of Arizona. The Professor's Regent is the highest faculty awarded at the university, an honor provided to the top 3% of scholars.
He founded both MIS departments (ranked the top 5 in the country by the US News & World Report for the past 20 years) in 1974, and the Information Management Center in 1985 at the University of Arizona.
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Biography
Nunamaker has served as a professor for over 80 doctoral students from 1968-present. Students who currently hold, or have held, positions at Harvard, University of Michigan, University of Indiana, University of Iowa, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, Texas A & amp; M University, University of Hawaii, and other MIS institutions.
Jay Nunamaker has been featured in the 1997 1997 Forbes magazine issue of technology as one of the top eight innovators in information technology.
In 2002, he was the recipient of the LEO Award (lifetime achievement) of the Information Systems Association, at the ICIS in Barcelona, ââSpain.
In a 2005 article in Communications Association for Information Systems, he was recognized as one of the most productive information systems researchers, ranked no. 4 to 6 for the period from 1991 to 2003 based on the number of papers in the top IS journal.
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Work
His multidisciplinary research builds on the foundations of computer-backed collaboration, decision support, fraud detection and determination of intent.
Nunamaker's research has resulted in major breakthroughs in collaboration, decision support systems, and automated systems analysis and design, and he is known to test his theories and systems in the "real world".
He built the first operational decision support center in 1985; there are more than 2,500 decision centers in industry, government and universities using GroupSystems software developed at the University of Arizona.
His research on group support systems addresses behavioral issues as well as techniques and focuses on theory and implementation.
Publications
His publications cover more than 250 papers and seven books, and editorial positions in major journals, in computer science and engineering, information management, communications, security informatics.
References
Further reading
Beck, P.; Forsman, A. (2002), "Degrees-of-Separation, and MIS Research Productivity", Proceedings of 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science , Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society, 8 (8)External links
- Website at arizona.edu.
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